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Assad warns US not to interfere in Syria struggle

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

By KARIN LAUB

Associated Press

BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won’t step down before elections and that the United States has no right...

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Canada abuzz over purported crack video of mayor

Updated: May 18, 2013 12:06am

By ROB GILLIES

Associated Press

TORONTO — A video purportedly of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada. Ford on Friday called the allegations “ridiculous...

Cambodian factory collapse kills two

Updated: May 17, 2013 12:06am

By SOPHENG CHEANG

Associated Press

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The ceiling of a Cambodian factory that makes Asics sneakers collapsed on workers early Thursday, killing two people and...

Syrian gov’t troops retake prison from rebel fighters

Updated: May 17, 2013 12:06am

By ZEINA KARAM

Associated Press

BEIRUT — Syrian government troops on Thursday flushed out rebels who had stormed a prison compound in the northern city of Aleppo in a bid to free...

Russia says alleged spying case was second this year

Updated: May 16, 2013 12:06am

By JIM HEINTZ

Associated Press

MOSCOW — A Russian security services operative — his features bathed in shadows — went on state television Wednesday to claim that the U.S. diplomat who...

Palestinians mark 1948 displacement

Updated: May 16, 2013 12:06am

By MOHAMMED

DARAGHMEH

Associated Press

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Tens of thousands of Palestinians marked the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war over Israel’...

UN OKs resolution on Syria

Updated: May 16, 2013 12:06am

By EDITH M. LEDERER

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly approved an Arab-backed resolution Wednesday calling for a political transition in Syria, but more than...

Geneva auction sells huge diamond for $26.7M

Updated: May 16, 2013 12:06am

By JOHN HEILPRIN

Associated Press

GENEVA — A huge diamond unearthed in Botswana commanded an unearthly price of $26.7 million from Christie’s auction house Wednesday amid the spring...

Minority resists evacuation order

Updated: May 16, 2013 12:06am

By TIM SULLIVAN

Associated Press

SITTWE, Myanmar — The cyclone was only a day or two away, churning through the Indian Ocean and carrying with it winds and rains that authorities...

Mayor: WWII sex slaves were necessary

Updated: May 15, 2013 12:05am

By MALCOLM FOSTER

Associated Press

TOKYO — An outspoken nationalist mayor said the Japanese military’s forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary...

<p>Associated Press</p><p>Darlin Lexima is treated for injuries by family members at his home in Camp Acra in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Lexima says his injuries are from being beating by police with their batons and the butts of their pistols and rifles in the Delmas police station after he was arrested.</p>

Eviction fears haunt Haiti quake camps

Updated: May 15, 2013 12:05am

By TRENTON DANIEL

Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents...

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